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Henrietta Ashworth (screenplay by:) Jessica Ashworth (screenplay by) Fiona Shaw (based on the novel by)
Henrietta Ashworth (screenplay by:) Jessica Ashworth (screenplay by) Fiona Shaw (based on the novel by)
Henrietta Ashworth (screenplay by:) Jessica Ashworth (screenplay by) Fiona Shaw (based on the novel by)
Adapted from a novel by Fiona Shaw. However, the book's happy ending was changed to a more bittersweet ending in the movie.
Charlie is a young boy trying to understand the world. His father Robert Weekes (Emun Elliott) is a brutal man who has abandoned him and his mother Lydia (Holliday Grainger). Charlie befriends Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) who keeps bees in her yard. She had recently returned home after her father's death. She's a woman's doctor and a lesbian which must be kept secret back then in a small village. When Lydia and Charlie get evicted, they move in with Jean. Slowly, Jean succumbs to Lydia and the secret cannot be kept hidden. Charlie is a problem. His turn is a problem. It's hard to understand his action when the movie doesn't seem to know him either. It needs to be set up better. His motivation is like a swarm of bees. It's hard to know which one is important and which one is not. Does he like his father? He fears being taken away but he's running away. Does he expect his family to be reunited? He's obsessed with secrets but what exactly does he know? What does he understand about love or sex? He doesn't seem to know and the movie is unable to specify his understanding. It may help to have an even younger actor in the role which would excuse his confusion. There is also the matter with the bees. It's a magical premise but the movie does not have the surreal magic needed to pull it off. While I appreciate the intended message, the movie never strays away from preaching its views. This could work but Charlie is a problem.
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Dr. Jean Markham : You should tell the bees your secrets. Then they won't fly away.

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Tell It to the Bees Is a 'Magical' Look at Lesbian Love and Nature
The Advocate spoke with Annabel Jankel, the director of a period piece that stars Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger as lovers in a small Scottish town.
On its surface, Tell It to the Bees, the film that stars Anna Paquin as a small-town doctor who falls for the mother of one of her patients in ’50s-era Scotland, is a period piece about lesbian desire, replete with deep gazes, stolen kisses, and fervent sex out of earshot of the male child, Charlie (whose point of view bookends the film). But simmering under the surface of the factory town where Holliday Grainger’s single mom, Lydia Weekes, continually gets behind on the rent as she shelters her son from the reality of their situation are themes around women’s sexual agency, autonomy over their bodies, same-sex love, interracial love, and toxic masculinity.
“I love the shopping list,” director Annabel Jankel jokes to The Advocate about rattling off the topical themes in her film, based on the 2009 novel by Fiona Shaw (not the actress who stars in Killing Eve ).
“There were so many things about it [the novel] that felt timely. It was the beginning of really transitioning into a more visible conversation about a lot of these things. And especially the whole LGBTQI movement starts to become much more evident in its vocal presence,” Jankel says of the time at which the novel was written, although she wasn’t introduced to it until several years later.
A director who cut her teeth on landmark videos for Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, and the Tom Tom Club, Jankel, who hails from England, is best known for co-creating the ’80s-era AI character and pop culture phenomenon Max Headroom. Tell It to the Bees, told in lush period detail, seems a far cry from Jankel’s early work, including the 1988 Dennis Quaid- and Meg Ryan-starrer D.O.A. and Super Mario Bros., based on the video game. But Jankel sought to tell a love story, and the film possesses a supernatural quality that’s outside of but also fits within her oeuvre.
“I became engrossed in this book and I just sort of ate it up. I had to stop everything because I wanted to find out what happened. I was really particularly attracted to the two main outsiders,” Jankel says. “I loved these two unusual women, especially in Britain. You’re crossing the classes, but you’re also crossing the genders through time. And it just has so many appealing aspects to it. I just thought, as I was reading it, I was envisioning it. It became important to me to try and make it happen.”
Tell it to the Bees is first and foremost about the love between Jean Markham (Paquin), who was shunned presumably for a relationship she’d had with a girl in her teens, and Lydia, a working-class mother whose husband left her to raise their child but still pops up to terrorize her over rumors of her relationship with Jean. But there’s no denying the movie’s searing social commentary.
There’s a tough-to-watch secondary plot that involves Lydia’s friend Annie (Lauren Lyle), who falls for and becomes pregnant by George (Leo Hoyte-Egan), a person of color. The racism and misogyny that ensue are staggering. But for all of its stark realism, the film is also fantastical in terms of the titular bees (which required a separate “bee unit” on set) that Jean keeps in her yard. On more than one occasion the tens of thousands of bees swarm in formation in response to stressful events in the narrative.
“It’s a delicate path to tread,” Jankel says of balancing the fantastical with the realistic.
“Because bees have this somewhat magical, cosmic, unquantifiable aspect to them and they work as a colony and as a hive, through the eyes of a child, when they kind of work at a macro level, when [kids] sort of peer into the blades of grass in the summertime and examine the ants,” she says. “The curiosity is a very different perspective than once you grow up, and it felt as though from Charlie’s perspective, the bees potentially represented something else.”
Of course, the draw for lesbian and bisexual women craving representation on the big screen is the film’s stars and their palpable chemistry. Paquin, the bisexual actress who won an Oscar for The Piano and went on to star in HBO’s supernatural True Blood, and Grainger, the British actress whom American audiences may know from Showtime's The Borgias, parry and test one another until their desire brims over into a full-fledged affair.
“I just fell in love with her immediately,” Jankel says of meeting Grainger. She has such tremendous empathy and intelligence. And for me, she just embodied Lydia from the moment we met. It was love at first sight.”
As for Paquin, Jankel has been a fan since 1993’s The Piano and credits the 36-year-old with helping to guide Gregor Selkirk, who plays Charlie, through the shoot, especially since the two of them were suited up and interacting with the bees regularly.
“[Anna’s] incredible support of Gregor, a young actor of around the same age that she was in The Piano, was so vital and sensitive that it made light of the intense schedule that we all were under in the wet and cold of a late Scottish summer,” Jankel says.
The bees are utilized in the film in various ways to color or highlight a moment — at one point, Jean delicately blows on a bee adhered to Lydia’s neck, at once illustrating her command over the essential beings and creating a moment of awe and desire between the women. In another crucial scene, the bees intervene during a display of dangerous toxic masculinity.
Tell It to the Bees is on its surface a love story between women that excavates issues of acceptance of LGBTQ people, race-based discrimination, and a renewed interest in denying women reproductive autonomy. But the presence of bees, which are so crucial to the health of the planet, also sends a portentous environmental message.
“To come back to the bees...” Jankel says. “One more aspect [of the film] that was incredibly topical because of all the pesticides and the whole issue around the death of the bee colonies, which is an utter catastrophe, is the line that Charlie says, that the doctor says, about ‘When the bees die, the Earth will die.’”
Still, the film is hopeful, ultimately sending a message about changing social mores. And that hope is reflected in bees’ place in the narrative.
“There’s the magical, unanswerable quality that is life itself,” Jankel says. “Therefore, it felt legitimate to weave that element in [through Charlie’s POV] and wonder at the bees, and how that might play out.”
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Looking for the best lesbian scenes in movies and on TV? I’ve got you covered. In this article, I’m sharing 40+ of my favourite lesbian love scenes of all time.
Let’s face it; we all look forward to a juicy on-screen lesbian scene. I’ve been craving them since I was a mere, closeted teenager, at a time when lesbians were fiercely underrepresented.
I remember watching Cruel Intentions too many times to mention just for THAT lesbian kiss. Other than an iconic music video by t.A.T.u , there was little else to ignite my gay awakening.
In fact, I would happily watch the worst trashiest uncreative productions if it meant getting the slightest bit of lesbian action. And I know I’m not alone on that one.
Fast forward twenty years, and thankfully, we have seen heaps of progression in this area. While, of course, there’s still a long way to go, LGBTQ+ representation on our screens is at an all-time high.
Of course, we must continue to advocate for better lesbian representation both in cinema and TV; however, for now, let’s take a look at some of the iconic lesbian scenes that have helped shape lesbian culture today.
So let’s get to it. Here are our 40+ favourite lesbian scenes of all time. Enjoy!
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One of the most intimate and intense lesbian movie scenes takes place in the 2002 movie Frida.
Based on the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, the film charts Frida’s passion for her work, her controversial lifestyle, and naturally, her complicated relationships.
We learn in the movie that Frida, played by the beautiful Salma Hayek, is sexually fluid. Many of her affairs involve other women.
In this particular scene, we witness Frida win a dance with Tina in a drinking competition. The dancing itself is mesmerising. But the chemistry between the two women is what makes this lesbian love scene so captivating.
Easily one of the best lesbian movies on Netflix right now, The Half of It follows Ellie, the high school nerd who’s popular for all the wrong reasons.
When Paul hires Ellie to write love letters to his crush Ester, Ellie ends up falling for her herself. Born into a traditional Chinese family, this is a tough realisation for Ellie.
Ester, on the other hand, is carrying a heavy burden due to her religion. This becomes apparent in the intimate scene between Ellie and Ester in the hot springs.
Never have I wanted a kiss to happen as much as I did during this scene. The conversation, the setting, and the music all suggest it’s going to happen, but it never does.
Nonetheless, the emotion and chemistry between the actors is magical, which is why it’s one of my favourite lesbian love scenes of all time.
Based on the book of the same name, Tell it to the Bees portrays a beautiful lesbian love story between two women from a small town in Scotland. (Click here to Read the Book)
Set in the 1950s when being queer was taboo, the movie was a good representation of what it might have been like to be ‘different’ in those days.
To be honest, I wasn’t big on the ending of this film. But I would still say that the movie is worth a watch. One of my favourite scenes is when the boy, Charlie, encourages Jean and Lydia to dance.
While there is no sexual contact, it’s a pinnacle moment in the film as they both seem to acknowledge their mutual attraction.
Emma Stone plays the protagonist in this biographical sports film, which follows renowned tennis player Billie Jean King.
King, whose most famous for her defeat against Bobby Riggs, was also one of the first athletes to be publicly outed. She has since gone on to say that it wasn’t easy at a time when “being gay was a big deal”.
The film follows King as she struggles with two monumental battles. The one which would lead to her defeat over Briggs. And the one that sees her trying to come to terms with her sexuality.
There are some beautiful and sensual scenes throughout the movie with her and Marilyn. But I love the car scene in particular when they agree to be “just friends”.
Set in the 1950s and derived from the lesbian novel The Price of Salt , the lesbian movie Carol is a timeless and flawless production. The story follows aspiring photographer Terese, who falls for Carol after meeting her in a department store.
The pair embark on a romantic love affair. But with Carol going through a tricky divorce, they are playing a dangerous game. Which, naturally, only makes their affair all the more exciting.
The scene in question; however, follows after Carol and Terese decide to take a festive road trip together. We observe the sexual tension build between them before they kiss and have sex for the first time .
The scene is sensual, intimate, and doesn’t feel tacky at all. And kudos to the actresses for both portraying their roles flawlessly. (Click here to Read the Book)
Freeheld is a beautiful and heartwarming story, but it’s also going to break your heart. You have been warned.
Julie-Anne Moore and Elliot Page star in the movie, which chronicles the true story of a New Jersey police detective.
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer Laurel wishes to leave her pension benefits to her domestic partner, Stacie. What follows, is a heart-wrenching battle for equal rights.
In this scene, we witness one of Laurel and Stacies happier times as they frolic on the beach. Seeing the couple carefree and in love is as touching as it is devastating when you know what’s to come.
Many critics have criticised the lead actresses portrayal of the story, but I thought it was a tremendous effort on both parts.
One of the older titles on this list, Desert Hearts is a groundbreaking movie for its time.
The storyline charts a New York professor as she leaves her home divorces her husband and starts an affair with another woman.
Made in the 80s but set in the 50s, the movie features numerous iconic lesbian scenes. However, the one that sticks in my mind is the first kiss, when Cay kisses Vivien in the rain.
There’s just something so romantic and sexy about kissing in the rain, albeit cliche AF.
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